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(_a_) Nomination of delegates in equal numbers by the landowners, farmers, and laborers.
(_b_) Intervention of the Chambers in individual or collective disputes between landowners, farmers, and agricultural workers.
(_c_) Fixing of a minimum wage by the public authorities on the proposition of the Agricultural Courts.
2. _Regulation of contracts to pay farm-rents._
(_a_) Fixing of the rate of farm-rents by Committees of Arbitration or by the reformed Agricultural Courts.
(_b_) Compensation to the outgoing farmer for enhanced value of property.
(_c_) Partic.i.p.ation of landowners, to a wider extent than that fixed by the Civil Code, in losses incurred by farmers.
(_d_) Suppression of the landowner's privilege.
3. _Insurance by the provinces, and reinsurance by the State, against epizootic diseases, diseases of plants, hail, floods, and other agricultural risks._
4. _Organization by the public authorities of a free agricultural education._
Creation or development of experimental fields, model farms, agricultural laboratories.
5. _Purchase by the communes of agricultural implements to be at the disposal of their inhabitants._
a.s.signment of common lands to groups of laborers engaging not to employ wage labor.
6. _Organization of a free medical service in the country._
7. _Reform of the Game Laws._
(_a_) Suppression of gun licenses.
(_b_) Suppression of game preserves.
(_c_) Right of cultivators to destroy all the year round animals which injure crops.
8. _Intervention of public authorities in the creation of agricultural co-operative societies--_
(_a_) For buying seed and manure.
(_b_) For making b.u.t.ter.
(_c_) For the purchase and use in common of agricultural machines.
(_d_) For the sale of produce.
(_e_) For the working of land by groups.
9. _Organization of agricultural credit._
III.--COMMUNAL PROGRAM
1. _Educational reforms._
(_a_) Free scientific instruction for children up to fourteen. Special courses for older children and adults.
(_b_) Organization of education in trades and industries, in co-operation with workmen's organizations.
(_c_) Maintenance of children; except where the public authorities intervene to do so.
(_d_) Inst.i.tution of school refreshment-rooms. Periodical distribution of boots and clothing.
(_e_) Orphanages. Establishments for children abandoned or cruelly ill-treated.
2. _Judicial reforms._
Office for consultations free of charge in cases coming before the law-courts, the industrial courts, etc.
3. _Regulation of work._
(_a_) Minimum wage and maximum working-day to be made a clause in contracts for communal works.
(_b_) Intervention of trade a.s.sociations in the fixing of rates of wages, and general regulation of industry. The Echevin of Public Works to supervise the execution of these clauses in contracts.
(_c_) Appointment by the workmen's a.s.sociations of inspectors to supervise the clauses in contracts.
(_d_) Rigorous application of the principle of tenders open to all, for all services which, during a transition-period, are not managed directly.
(_e_) Permission to trade-unions to tender, and abolition of security-deposit.
(_f_) Creation of _Bourses du Travail_, or at least offices for the demand and supply of employment, whose administration shall be entrusted to trade-unions or labor a.s.sociations.
(_g_) Fixing of a minimum wage for the workmen and employees of a commune.
4. _Public charity._
(_a_) Admission of workmen to the administration of the councils of hospitals and of public charity.
(_b_) Transformation of public charity and the hospitals into a system of insurance against old age. Organization of a medical service and drug supply. Establishment of public free baths and wash-houses.
(_c_) Establishment of refuges for the aged and disabled.
Night-shelter and food-distribution for workmen wandering in search of work.
5. _Complete neutrality of all communal services from the philosophical point of view._
6. _Finance._
(_a_) Saving to be effected on present cost of administration. Maximum allowance of 6,000 francs for mayors and other officials. Costs of entertainment for mayors who must incur certain private expenses.
